The Drumcree marching dispute in Portadown could be reignited after the
Parades Commission this week stunned nationalist residents by initially
permitting an Orange march on the lower end of the Garvaghy Road, the
scene of some of the North’s most intense parades violence, before
changing its mind.

The armed group referred to as the ‘new IRA’ has threatened to
target civilian security staff unless the firm they work for stops
fitting electronic tags to republican prisoners. They said the tags are
being applied as part of a British criminalisation effort against
republicans.

There was a new royal embarrassment for Sinn Fein this week when Martin
McGuinness accompanied the English queen on a tour of Crumlin Road
prison in Belfast, a famous site of struggle for Irish republicans.

A Police Ombudsman’s report has found that the British Crown forces
could have prevented the killing of an RUC police sergeant in 1977, but
failed to do so. Sinn Fein has said the murder was allowed to proceed to
protect the identity of an informer.

Efforts by British and unionist politicians to to overturn a side-deal
concession given to Sinn Fein during peace negotiations could backfire after it was revealed that controversial ‘letters of
comfort’ given to Sinn Fein supporters may also have been given to
members of the British Crown forces.

A notorious loyalist parade passed off peacefully on Friday night, June
20th, as thousands of Orange men and their supporters took part in the
annual ‘Tour of the North’ parade in Belfast, which passed a flashpoint
at St Patrick’s Catholic Church.

A republican from County Armagh is taking legal action after he found a
surveillance device hidden in his car. The man from Lurgan, who does not
want to be named, is a member of Republican Network for Unity.

There was uproar in the Dublin parliament this week as the coalition
government unilaterally altered the make up of a committee of inquiry
into the banking crisis -- because it was not assured of a built-in
majority.

The international media descended this week on a town in the west of
Ireland following shocking claims that an order of nuns may have buried
hundreds of infant children in an unmarked mass grave between the 1920s
and the 1960s.

The North’s Police Ombudsman Michael Maguire has launched a legal action
against PSNI Chief Matt Baggott over the failure to provide information
on major investigations into killings throughout the conflict.

Despite the combined opposition of the two main conservative parties,
independent councillor Christy Burke has been elected Mayor of Dublin
for 2014/2015, with Sinn Fein to hold the mayoralty the following year.

A BBC documentary has shown evidence of the PSNI violently attacking
innocent pubgoers in the predominately nationalist town of Omagh. The
victims were accused of public order offences, but the cases were thrown
out when contradictory video evidence was presented to the court.